Alison Fleming

Alison Fleming is a longtime songwriter and recording artist. Originally from a family with RAF roots who later settled in Yorkshire UK, she is now based in Colorado, USA. 

Alison played piano as a child, growing up with an appreciation of music thanks to her parents who both played piano her mother into classical music and her father a jazz enthusiast. She composed her own little pieces and found it easier to play tunes by ear rather than relying on sheet music. Her mother's love of film musicals rubbed off on her too, with classics such as, 'The Sound of Music' and 'Funny Girl'. 

Alison had a knack for poetry that won her competitions at school. By her mid-teens she had picked up acoustic guitar.

In the 1980s, while working in publishing, the love for music and instinct for creative expression converged and she started songwriting seriously.

Her first tracks composed on guitar had an acoustic folk-like feel along with ambiguous chords and phrasing. A subtle tendency for experimentation, and a progressive thread, runs through all her songwriting to date.

As her studio developed so did her solo writing style, which has prompted genres including singer-songwriter, alternative-indie, dream pop, art rock, free folk, Brit-pop, experimental, new progressive…and genre-fusion. Her free form approach has in equal measure brought suggestions of songwriters such as Bjork and Kate Bush; Joni Mitchell and Edie Brickell; Annie Lennox and Belinda Carlisle.

Her first song-demos to the UK music industry in the 80's were well received among A&R folk in London, who asked her to put the tracks into better shape.

Enter renowned guitarist producer creator, Tony Lowe - now longtime musical colleague and friend - whose first productions of her tracks were pivotal in garnering the interest of Chrysalis Records, and later of Hit and Run Music Publishing (UK).

Lowe and Fleming's co-written albums 'All of the Above' and 'Second Nature' landed on the first ballot lists of the GRAMMY® Awards 2007 and 2008, an unprecedented achievement for independent artists.  Third co-write, the ambient, futuristic, new progressive album, 'Human Sleeping’ was released in 2014.

Alison has contributed variously over the years to Tony Lowe's star studded 'esp project' and has co-written and made guest appearances on other albums on the associated Sunn Creative label. 

In 2012 Alison began working also with music producer, Paul Baggott (UK). She has released five solo albums produced by Paul to date - three under the 'Freeway' project in 2017/2018;  followed by ‘Play On Words’ in March of 2023 and ‘Play On Words - The Remixes’ 24th May 2024. Alison continues to write and record out of her studio at home in Colorado.